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This is a great fix. Greenlight was immediately filled with fake entries full of porn, copyrighted material, and games that simply don't exist. The $100 price p

This is a great fix. Greenlight was immediately filled with fake entries full of porn, copyrighted material, and games that simply don't exist. The $100 price point is high enough to turn away most fakes but low enough that it's not a barrier for real products. Greenlight itself still has problems but Valve has already shown they are quick to respond to issues so I expect it to continue to improve.

demallien 14y ago
Yup, it's a good solution. Funnily enough, it's very similar in nature to Apple requiring you to pay $100 to get a developer certificate for iOS (which allows you to run software that can break just about any limit that Apple imposes on AppStore apps). Maybe Apple PR will notice that this was positively received, and start donating the $100 developer fee - it sends a loud signal that the fee is all about filtering, and not about raking in $$$
- chrisballinger 14y ago
  Those fees also pay the salaries for a large number of full-time app reviewers.
  - dalke 14y ago
    Huh. Really? So the overhead fees that Apple charges for placing something in the app store doesn't including paying app reviewer salaries? How strange. Given that there's probably over 100x as many IOS users as developers, and that the users are supposed to be the ones who benefit most from review, it seems a rather strange bias. Where do you get your information about the internal income source for the reviewer salaries?
  - DeepDuh 14y ago
    Since Apple supposedly doesn't account in separate business units this still shouldn't make a difference to them.